Frances Schoenberger

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Frances Schoenberger (bourgeois Gertraud Franziska Schönberger , born September 23, 1945 in Kollbach , Lower Bavaria ) is a German film journalist who lives and works in Hollywood .

Life

Schoenberger is the illegitimate daughter of an innkeeper from the Lower Bavarian village of Kollbach near Gangkofen . After graduating from business school in Landshut , she worked as an au pair in Dublin and as a chambermaid at the Hilton Hotel in London to improve her English. After her return to Germany she was hired as an assistant by Kindler und Schiermeyer Verlag for the star journalist Will Tremper , from whom she learned the journalist trade. Tremper became her mentor and first placed her as an assistant in the foreign office in London, then as a private secretary for Hildegard Knef while she was working on her biography. In 1969 Schoenberger moved to the United States, where she experienced the Woodstock Festival firsthand in August of that year . In the 1970s, she reported from Los Angeles for the youth magazine Bravo on stars and films in Hollywood. Schoenberger opened the West Coast office for Burda Verlag and represented eleven magazines. She then developed TV specials for ZDF, a. a. from 1982 to 1985 the series exclusively with the Dallas stars Larry Hagman and Linda Gray , the Denver Clan actors Joan Collins and Linda Evans as well as portraits of Anthony Quinn, Paloma Picasso and some more. Her reports have also appeared in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Hörzu and Ambiente magazines and she worked as a Hollywood correspondent for Stern for years. At the same time, she placed Hollywood stars in German film and television productions and became the representative of the Export Union of German Films , foreign representative of the FFA film funding agency and a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , which determines the awarding of the Golden Globe Awards . She interviewed numerous celebrities, including Clint Eastwood , David Bowie , Billy Wilder , Walter Matthau , Johnny Depp , Neil Diamond , Brad Pitt and Arnold Schwarzenegger . The latter is the godfather of Schoenberger's daughter Daisy, who comes from her marriage to the photographer Michael Montfort (1940–2008). In 1975 she conducted an interview with John Lennon , but it was not published in Spin magazine until October 1988 . She also got an exclusive interview from the imprisoned murderer Charles Manson . In 2005 she published her autobiography Barefoot in Hollywood , in which she gives insights into the film metropolis and reports on her acquaintances with film stars.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Frances Schoenberger: Barefoot in Hollywood . Fischer Taschenbuch, 2005. ISBN 978-3810519290
  2. ↑ John Lennon: He said ... she said by Frances Schoenberger, Spin, October 1988, pp. 29-31, pp. 70-72
personal data
SURNAME Schoenberger, Frances
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönberger, Gertraud Franziska (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollbach , Lower Bavaria